one laptop for every child

There are roughly one billion school age children in the world....will they all have a PC one day?
http://www.radioopensource.org/one-laptop-per-child/

The Library of Alexandria

“Electronic texts could turn into a reality the old but never fulfilled fantasy of complete knowledge. Like the library of Alexandria, they promise the universal availability of all texts ever written, of all books ever published”( Origgi 6).

What are the risks then of a realized digital updated version of the Library of Alexandria accessible by all people? In an interview with Gloria Origgi, editor of text-e, Eco explains what he believes is the “primary metaphysical risk” of the unsystematic filtering process which the Web’s content undergoes by its readers. Eco believes that because each reader brings with them their criteria and purposes for reading, “we’ll end up with a civilization in which every person has his own system of filters, in other words where every person creates his own encyclopedia. Now a society with five billion concurrent encyclopedias is a society in which there is no more communication” (origgi 179). Could this be the greatest risk we run in creating a publicly accessible e-library which contains an updated catalogue of “complete knowledge”? While the library itself, and the volumes contained within it, would be a globally collaborative social effort, would the use of its contents become a completely individualized and isolating activity? How could a system of standardized filters, for content authority and publisher validity, be developed for Web based texts which would not discriminate against those writers with little or no official credibility but who possess valid and useful content that would enrich the universal library? What does it mean to "enrich" the library? Who would determine this?

Text as Art-Art as Text

Here are a few examples of text, poems, displayed visually with the help of three collaborators. A sculptor, a writer, and a painter.
http://english.uiowa.edu/faculty/bolton/artworks1.html

will we disappear...?

the computers are coming for our jobs. distance learning is spreading its cables and tentacles. degrees are awarded to students who never enter a classroom.......where do we come in?

personal preference versus the good of all

hmmmmm...... social constructivism or isolated comfort

Podcasts spreading the word at the speed of sound.

I have created a link to Wesley Fryer's Blog, a self-proclaimed digital storyteller and change agent. He has many links, discussions and downloads concerning podcasts and how they are being used for lectures, collaborative thinking, and teaching. www.speedofcreativity.org

Many of us own ipods and know what podcasts are, but their purpose is beings expanded and used very effectively by educators looking to tap into the potentiality of every form of digital technology. spreading the word at the speed of sound.

Web+Log=Blog

Blogs are web pages. Your email is a web page. Any window that ever pops up while your surfing is a web page. Any form of media that you watch or interact with on the Internet is occuring on a web page.

Text is all around us-WEBDINGS Translation

text is more than words. it is more than images. it is more than symbols and gestures. text is more than all of these things combined. Text is the texture of each of our worlds. it is the whispers in the halls of academia, the screams on the playing field, the way others touch you and look at you. You can see, smell, feel, hear, and taste text. text can be delicious. text can be poisonous. It all depends on you.

text is all around us

text is more than words. it is more than images. it is more than symbols and gestures. text is more than all of these things combined. Text is the texture of each of our worlds. it is the whispers in the halls of academia, the screams on the playing field, the way others touch you and look at you. You can see, smell, feel, hear, and taste text. text can be delicious. text can be poisonous. It all depends on you.